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September 14, 1974 – CBS Radio: The Washington Week In Review – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 14, 1974. Even though the actual Pardon of Richard Nixon by Gerald Ford came on the 8th of September, the reactions and reverberations to the full and complete Pardon ran the gamut...
August 18, 1976 – Republican Convention – Presidential nominations – CBS – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Forty-two years ago this week, Republicans gathered in Kansas City to select a nominee for the 1976 Presidential election. Like most conventions, it had its fair share of cliff hangers – Gerald Ford,...
August 9, 1974 – Gerald Ford Is Sworn In As President – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 9, 1974 – while we were still busy digesting the resignation speech of Richard Nixon the evening earlier, and were still processing Nixon’s somewhat surreal farewell address, vice-President Gerald...
December 22, 1974 – CBS Radio – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 22, 1974 – The end of a week, and three days to Christmas. A New vice-President was sworn in, after some four months of hearings and confirmation cross-examinations on Capitol Hill. Nelson...
NPR -America’s Town Meeting – American Leadership In The Coming Election – Oct. 1, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – America was in a quandary in 1975. Suffering through the Watergate scandal and the fall of Richard Nixon, along with the soul-searching going on at the end of the...
June 27, 1977 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 27, 1977 – a day of contrasts throughout the world. Beginning with news of a tragic fire in a Columbia Tennessee jail which took the lives of some 42 prisoners and visitors is what was...
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Press Conference – March 26, 1975 – National Public Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in a press conference carried on radio and TV on March 26, 1975, told a room filled with reporters that the Middle East Peace...
Nelson Rockefeller Confirmation Hearings re-cap – NET/NPR – September 27, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Nelson Rockefeller and his confirmation hearings for the office of vice-President, September 1974. Picture this; The President has resigned from office only a month earlier, in the midst of one of the biggest...
September 22, 1975 – CBS – The World Tonight + Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 22, 1975 – The second time in as many weeks; an attempt to assassinate President Ford. Ironically, also in California. The first attempt took place on the 5th of September, as Ford...
President Ford – Amnesty Proposal for Vietnam era Deserters and resisters – September 16, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The War in Southeast Asia; the seemingly endless conflict that consumed Vietnam, as well as Cambodia and Laos and left them countries enveloped in widespread destruction for almost three...
